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Residential Parking Problems

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

I have received two emails so far from norwalkcity.com visitors complaining about residential parking, and I too am experiencing issues with neighbors taking up so much street parking spaces. Times like this I envy my colleagues that live in nice neighborhood areas in Cerritos and Downey.

An email from a Norwalk resident wrote that a neighbor living six houses from her always park their vehicles right in front of her house. Thank you for writing.

My neighbor thats about 6 doors down parks his car infront of my house and doesn’t move it the whole week. We have our own cars that we like to park infront of our house and he has plenty of parking infront of his.

One day of parking or two would be fine but wouldn’t it bother you if you see another vehicle parked right in front of your house only because that household has more than three vehicles parked on the street and not their own driveway? Two neighbors from my house comes to mind right away. They are notorious on our street for having more than five (yes, 5!) vehicles for one house. I found out that in one of those household, they are renting out the rooms to two young renters. It is an annoyance when their modded Chrysler 300 with an obnoxious engine intake and exhaust system blasts your window late at night.

The other household living two house apart from mine is a bit on the overboard. Less than 2,000 square foot house, more than 12 people including the children lives in the house. And what boggles my mind is that they are one family living with their relatives (cousins and what not) and renting the house. If you walk by the house, it is easy to tell that over a dozen people live in there by the number of cars parked on the streets, the driveway (three including a boat attached to one), and a dead lawn. Yikes!

These parking issues has been going on for more than two years and if the matter gets worse for me, I will need to contact the City and find a solution to remedy the problem. There must be a city ordinance where it prohibits such parking issue or a state law that limits the number of people/children living in a one place.

If you are also experiencing problems with your neighbors taking up too many spots on the street parking, comment here.

In-N-Out or Five Guys Burgers?

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

City of Norwalk is very fortunate to be a very popular hamburger chain known as “In-N-Out” and the In-N-Out restaurant is also fortunate to be able to have its location down in Norwalk too because of its excellent location on a busy boulevard. The sales figure in this location alone should be above satisfactory to the corporate office because there is not a single moment when the In-N0-Out does not have a customer.

14330 Pioneer Blvd. Norwalk, California 90650
Sunday through Thursday
10:30 a.m.-1:00 a.m.
Friday and Saturday 10:30 a.m.-1:30 a.m.

If you live in Norwalk and have never tried an In-N-Out burger, fries, and a thick milk shake, you better drive out there and try it. But I can’t imagine anyone living in Southern California or Las Vegas that have not tried their burgers yet.
I recently visited Cerritos and went to one of the open air shopping centers and a particular restaurant caught my eyes. With a similar interior layout and colors, a burger chain called “Five Guys” seemed like a copycat of the In-N-Out restaurant. We ended up eating someplace else as I thought Five Guys was just one of those hamburger chains like Fat Burgers, good but not as great as the In-n-Out. Well, the following week, I saw a Nightline Special, where President Obama took a lunch break to a burger chain in Washington D.C., have you guess where? Yes, he went to Five Guys and ordered bags full of burgers for his team members.

Five Guys burger chain started in the East Coast and started expanding new franchises over in the West Coast. Five Guys’ menu are similar to In-N-Out with a bit more selection and options. Five Guys have great ratings on Yelp.com so I will check it out myself.

Cerritos Promenade Mall
11461 South St

Cerritos, CA 90703
11AM-10PM

Neighbor Vandalism

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

It started years ago during the time when my little brother lived with me in Norwalk. Our neighbor street was peaceful or so I thought. Before my family moved in into Norwalk, we use to live in Los Angeles in a mid-scale neighborhood and everyone respected the neighbor’s property, privacy, noise level, and were very friendly towards one another.

But things were lot different here in Norwalk. I noticed that there were lot of cars parked on the residential streets instead of the usual two to three vehicles per households normally found at other cities. The neighbors especially in my street some had like five to seven vehicles in one household. You read it right, five to seven vehicles. As day goes by, I realized that there were numerous people entering and leaving the house on a daily basis so either they had an enormous household in one house or the rooms were being rented out to renters.

On one evening, there were two vehicles parked in front of my house street curve so my brother parked his vehicle across the street. He told me that two neighbors were out on their front yard drinking beer and chatting together. Then the homeowner where my brother parked his car at said not to park his car there. Brother replied that there was no other available parking space. The following morning, a beer cardboard was placed on the car’s windshield with a big X marked on it. He didn’t visually check his car if there was any intentionally vandalism on his car.

Couple weeks forward, my mother had to park her car to on the same curb, and right when she was leaving the vehicle and heading towards the house, that homeowner came out with a broom and started sweeping next to my mother’s car. Outrageous! That man obviously had bad intentions and not a friendly neighbor. My mother relocated the car elsewhere.

At another time, I parked my car in front of xx house only to find that the homeowner turned on his little sprinkler unit right next to my car. I immediately headed out to my car and the water shooting out of the sprinkler was hitting the rotary of my right rear wheel. What bad intentions and wrongful doing of these Norwalk residents! I reparked my car elsewhere.

I was very frustrated with these two neighbors. April 3, 2009, my car was again parked in front of the xy house as there were no visible parking spaces near my house. I was hesitant at first last night whether I should park there or not and this was a brand new car too. The first time I did when I approached my vehicle was visually inspect the car and I was mad at this point. There was a yellow tac pin pinned down on my front right wheel! Yes it is a small tac pin but how dare he insert that in my vehicle. This is property vandalism! At this point, I am pretty angry and I don’t have any proof of this case or previous cases to file a small court suit against the xx homeowner.